Favorite Obscure Games

Post by **haas mark** » 2004-01-03 08:01pm

Virtual Bart.

~ver

The Kernel · Post by **The Kernel** » 2004-01-03 08:03pm

Oh, and even though it has a cult following, I'm still going to say Chrono Trigger as the mainstream crown has no idea that this game or its excellent sequel exist. Probably the best two games ever made.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-01-03 10:14pm

ahh, chrono trigger. one of the greatest RPGs of all time. also going to have to toss in Secret of Mana. it wasn't quite as big as say, final fantasy. but it was good in its own right.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2004-01-03 10:38pm

Would StarControl 2 count as obscure? Or merely old?

mauldooku · Post by **mauldooku** » 2004-01-03 11:00pm

anarchistbunny wrote:Phantasia or something like that , I think it recently got GBAed, more RPGish action RPG, fights were an Action/RPG mix, but everthing else was straight RPG.

I'll me too this, RIVER CITY FUCKING RANSOM! If you haven't played it, do it by means that I can't discuss on this board NOW!

Captain Skyhawk on the NES, usually don't like those one hit one kill shooters, but this game was cool.

Master Blaster, also NES.

Tales of Phantasia. I've just beaten Dhaos in the past. Excellent game. It's an RPG, but it has Side-scrolling, linear action battles. Sort of like Street Fighter, just linear and RPG-like.

Although, there's the combo command, which makes it even MORE like a fighting game, becuase all of Cless's Techs are activated through D-pad and button combos.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2004-01-03 11:12pm

Dalton wrote:
anarchistbunny wrote:Phantasia or something like that , I think it recently got GBAed, more RPGish action RPG, fights were an Action/RPG mix, but everthing else was straight RPG.
...Phantasy Star?

No, Badme got it, Tales of Phantasia, it was an SNES game that never made it to the US(why do the good ones always do that?).

Which reminds me of another one, Bahamut Lagoon, not Final Fantasy Square RPG, graphicly equal to FF6, although not as good story wise, sort of a precourser to the Final Fantasy Tactics liniage. Underdogs has a nice translation rom, not just run through a translator, someone went through it and made sure it made sense, changing things a bit, but keeping accurate.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2004-01-03 11:19pm

Also Something Awful forum goons has a pretty good edit of Final Fantasy 6, mostly just text and sprite changes, with a little character editing. For example Edgar(Pinto Grande in game) has blitzes while Sabin(Fistgrrl) has tool. Shadow has Leo's Shock, Terra is the same(although a guy, that goes supersayjin, and his victory dance thing has him removing his pants with a boner, Fistgrrl does the same with her top) Locke has throw instead of fight, Celes has Dance instead of runic, Gao has Jump and Health instead of leap and rage(which i like, I HATED leap and rarely used Gao). And instead of Espers you have Furries.

Post by **Kuja** » 2004-01-03 11:40pm

Stofsk wrote:Would StarControl 2 count as obscure? Or merely old?

Probably both.

Sriad · Post by **Sriad** » 2004-01-04 12:52am

Base Wars for the original NES, the best baseball game ever.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2004-01-04 01:33am

Sriad wrote:Base Wars for the original NES, the best baseball game ever.

Holy Crap, I forgot about that, nothing like having going to a base decided by two players duke it out.

LordShaithis · Post by **LordShaithis** » 2004-01-04 02:26am

Anyone ever play a strange little SNES game called EVO: The Search for Eden? It was this side-scrolling RPG where you began as a defenseless little fish, but could eventually evolve into a human being or whatever, so as to become the ultimate lifeform and win Gaia's hand in marriage.

Odd, but very enjoyable. The general aesthetic was of a child's dinosaur book crossed with a Disney cartoon, thouroughly Japanified and injected with LSD. (Yeti Junior is upset that your dinosaur ate his parents, and now he's back for revenge!) You'd swim along through the first time period gobbling up other fish and gaining XP, which you could then spend on evolving a faster tail or tougher scales. By the time the sea-plants asked you to defeat their giant shark oppressors, you were a swimming Terminator. After the sharks were dead, Gaia would magically grant you a basic amphibian body and kick you forward a few million years. It would go on like this, until you were turned into a dinosaur and sent to the Mesozoic. After that point, there were no more forced body-changes. Over the course of the game you could become a bird or a mammal, which you may or may not evolve into a human being, or just tough it out as a dinosaur.

The Kernel · Post by **The Kernel** » 2004-01-04 02:47am

Shit, I forgot about E.V.O.; that game was awesome. I've been hoping that they'll make a sequel for years and now that the Square-Enix merger is complete, they just might.

Post by **Dalton** » 2004-01-04 03:20am

anarchistbunny wrote:
Sriad wrote:Base Wars for the original NES, the best baseball game ever.
Holy Crap, I forgot about that, nothing like having going to a base decided by two players duke it out.

My brother always cheesed with the laser gun.

And I agree with all the Chrono Trigger nominations.

LordShaithis · Post by **LordShaithis** » 2004-01-04 05:02am

Chrono Trigger and FF3 (or FF6 for you purists) represent Square's all-time best work.

Secret of Mana was a notch below, but still very good. Oddly enough for one of their "cutest" games, the ending was surprisingly downbeat.

Spoilers removed. ~Dalton

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2004-01-04 05:43am

Anyone here remember Detroit?

Super-Gagme · Post by **Super-Gagme** » 2004-01-04 05:54am

Bad Toys

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2004-01-04 11:06am

SNKs Baseball Stars

I almost forgot about that one.

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2004-01-04 11:15am

Pablo Sanchez wrote:Pirates! for the NES. A fun game where you sailed the Caribbean, snagged ships, raided towns, and did various other things.

Fool!

Get the Genesis "Pirates! Gold"

Best version of Pirates, ever, beats the PC version down and makes it's
it bitch repeatedly

Bob McDob · Post by **Bob McDob** » 2004-01-05 01:29am

Catch the Sperm Unlimited (2003?) Side scroller produced by Swiss StopAids coalition. Use your condom gun to catch festive-looking spermazoids, as well as Gonorhea, Syphillis, and the deadliest of all, the AIDS!

Shadowhawk · Post by **Shadowhawk** » 2004-01-05 01:58am

Datana wrote:2. Metal Storm for the NES. You controlled a gravity-flipping robot fighting your way through stages in a timed rush. Very easy to initially learn, but the difficulty rises exponentially (you'll hit an absolute wall in the third stage on your first playthrough). I've never been able to beat the final stage, myself (it's a Megaman-like boss rush).

Yes! I loved that game! Sadly, after several months, my cartridge starting glitching--the game became unplayable. I asked my mom to exchange it for me, but she never did.

I can't remember how far I managed to get, but I'm sure I did beat those laser cannons that take up the entire screen.

GrandAdmiralPrawn wrote:Anyone ever play a strange little SNES game called EVO: The Search for Eden?

That game absolutely kicked ass. I rented it more than anything else. I think I even beat it one renting (I could -never- beat the final boss if I had evolved into a human. I was some uber-buff quadraped when I did beat it).

I need to look for both those games in the bargain bin.

Arthur_Tuxedo · Post by **Arthur_Tuxedo** » 2004-01-05 02:55am

Let's see, ones that no one's mentioned:

Bioforge
Crusader: No Remorse
Twinsen's Oddysey
Realms of Arcadia (I think that was the name anyway, Blade of Destiny, Star Forge, and Shadows over Riva were the 3 games in that series)
Strife
I Was an Atomic Mutant!
Jazz Jackrabbit
Battlezone
Shogo: Mobile Armor Division
Die by the Sword

That's all I care to think of at the moment.

EDIT: Oh, and Space Empires IV. Fairly well known around this board, but still rather obscure in general I think.

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-01-05 03:41am

Deadlock is a obscure and little known game that I like a lot. It is a very good strategy game that puts in you command of one of six empires vying for global conquests. What sets the game apart is combat. Unlike Civilization there is actual 3d real time combat.

Post by **Lagmonster** » 2004-01-05 09:01am

Chrysalis for the NES was a great adventure/RPG game that no one I know other than me has played...

Soldat and Crimsonland, of course...

Cybernator for the SNES was the best side-scrolling action games this side of Einhander...

Though the king of obscure gems is doubtless The Castles of Doctor Creep, for the Commodore 64. Now that was hours of fun back in the day.

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2004-01-05 09:22am

Starship Titanic

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2004-01-06 06:32pm

Its only obscure outside of Japan, but I love the Super Robot Wars series of games, I've lost too many hours to them....

Turn based strategy at its best